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( d$ o- F5 ^' F' }- H4 }‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
+ S3 x Q+ S4 Z* ~# v# e9 \5 ^$ {+ j1 S1 ?Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( \( ]+ H" a% j3 S$ M
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading Y+ }, ]/ j7 z( D8 p
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!3 g2 P( m; z( V$ ?. v* }" Q+ b, |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 n5 ^2 F3 r; Y1 z3 V; h" y2 r
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
3 j& n: R! b" U- w7 ]" Z”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
4 A1 V9 u6 M) y' {* x$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& u5 i ]" Z& m! Bpure luck.) G/ `4 q8 |' p. ]! R; {# S
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
2 {$ U) I2 Z% {6 s: n, w! [Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 V# K# f3 ]' tThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin( t5 ?5 \! z9 A5 B( j/ l' _9 ?. A+ L
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall% \" M: d/ R' a
Street watchdogs.
x9 Z$ f" P2 p! |5 a1 X) E”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 B1 q( H; g1 q% ]5 BMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# n2 p4 h: t; w/ W) Z
investigation.: z6 B9 K$ O) M' G2 v9 @ e# F6 S7 K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling9 D( m! w: ` V+ W" m# D
four-hour confession.
; y; `1 }2 R8 R2 [( i {Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 f- U! b' b& S
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* D6 s5 Z2 b/ _- A4 ^5 {/ fknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
1 _. d3 @8 K' b: E- i4 A1 N j”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
5 `& b; D9 `. ]# K; Jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
) e: }* `3 L% |& ^& ~in the moment.”
: ]) [+ e$ v* V3 Q% l" zIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* T+ {+ [8 z' {# K3 C! {. qOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
& _0 X3 i# W8 ] }All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
* C# [. `3 ?) n5 _! m. b/ e( t. DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear! L; L$ t" b1 n
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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